[quote=@Crispy Octopus]
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I don't like that honestly, because travel between spheres is supposed to be hard right?  If a gods sphere is like a foot below the surface any joe with a shovel is digging into a gods sphere.

I think it should be basically impossible to physically tunnel into lower spheres or fly to upper ones.  We know there are overlapping spheres so I'd almost rather double down on that than deal with the headache of spheres a foot below the ground.

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This is actually a really good point. Ir's probably fine for the sky god's sphere to be the stratosphere or the ocean god's to be the Marianna Trench, but having your realm so close [i]is[/i] a contradiction.

[quote=@Double Capybara]
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Well, in Shinto they divide it between Heavenly Gods and Earthly Gods. The advantage of Earthly over Chocaholic is that it embraces both Land and Underworld, so there is no need to think if it the seed/root being underground or the canopy being up in the sky, it also eliminates the middle realm, as fairyland would be earthly. 

We don't need to change the word Chthonic, but just give a heads up that it also includes all the surface.
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Well, Chthonic [i]does[/i] literally mean 'of or relating to the underworld'. We probably would need to rename it to be Celestial gods vs Earth Gods. The Chthonic ones would be a subset of Earth gods, I guess.